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1This letter is from me, Paul. I am an apostle of Jesus Christ. It is not any group of people or any one person that has given that authority to me. It is Jesus Christ himself who has chosen me to serve him. And God our Father has also sent me. He is the one who raised Jesus to become alive again after his death.
2All the believers who are here say ‘hello’ to you. We all send this letter to you.
I am writing to you, the people of the churches that are in Galatia.
3I pray that God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ will continue to help you. I pray that they will give you peace in your minds.
4Jesus offered himself as a sacrifice because of all the wrong things that we have done. He did this to save us from all the bad things of this world in which we live now. This is what God, our Father, wanted him to do.
5God is great and we should praise him for ever! Amen . This is true.
6I am very surprised that you are turning away so soon from God. He is the one who chose you to come to him. He did that because Christ is very kind to you. But now you want to accept a different message which some people call good news.
7But really, there is no other message from God which is good news. Some people are confusing you. They are trying to change the good news about Christ and make it something different.
8We have taught you the true message about God's good news. Nobody should ever teach a message that is different from that. Neither we ourselves, nor even an angel from heaven , should ever teach a different message. If anyone does that, I pray that God would curse them.
9We have already said this, but now I will say it again. Do not accept any message that is different from the message that we taught you. If anyone teaches a different message, I pray that God will curse them for ever.
10When I say these things, I am not trying to please people. No, it is God that I want to please. If I only wanted to make people happy, then I would not be a servant of Christ.
11The good news that I tell people did not come from human ideas. I want you to know that, my friends.
12Nobody on earth gave it to me. Nobody taught it to me. No, it was Jesus Christ himself who showed it to me clearly.
13You know about the things that I did before, when I obeyed the Jewish rules. I caused the people of God's church to suffer very much. I tried to destroy those people completely.
14I obeyed the Jewish rules better than many other Jews who were the same age as me. I tried very much to obey the ideas that our Jewish ancestors taught.
15But God had chosen me to serve him even before I was born. I did not deserve this, but God is very kind.
16He chose to show his Son clearly to me, so that I could tell the Gentiles about him. When God chose me to do that, I did not talk about it with any person.[#1:16 Jesus showed himself to Paul near the city of Damascus. See Acts 9:1-5.]
17Nor did I go to Jerusalem to see Christ's apostles there. Those men were already his apostles before I was. But I did not go to talk to them. Instead, I went immediately to the region of Arabia. Later, I went back to the city of Damascus.[#1:17 Arabia was a place south and east of Israel.]
18Then, three years later, I did go to Jerusalem to meet with Peter. I stayed with him for 15 days.[#1:18 Peter was one of Jesus' 12 .]
19I did not see any other apostles, except James, the Lord's brother.
20God knows that what I am writing to you is completely true!
21Later, I went to different places in Syria and Cilicia.[#1:21 Syria and Cilicia were places north of Israel, south and east of Galatia, near to the Mediterranean Sea.]
22The Christians in the churches in Judea had never met me.[#1:22 Judea was the south of Israel. Jerusalem, the capital city of Israel, was in Judea.]
23They had only heard people say this about me: ‘At one time, this man caused us to suffer as Christians. He tried to destroy God's message about Jesus. But now he himself is telling people the good news about Jesus.’
24When the believers in Judea heard that, they praised God because of me.